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The Medalist Sweatshirt - Black
DESCRIPTION
- The Mister Freedom® MEDALIST is our take on the iconic American SWEATSHIRT.
- We’ve been working on this one for a while, as plenty of contemporary options already exist and we wanted to make sure that our version be classic yet special.
- Pair it with blue jeans, khaki chinos, piques… for the gym, the beach or to lounge around at home, our MEDALIST is versatile, comfortable, functional, ethically-produced… and just ridiculously good looking!
- SPECS
- Milled in Japan.
- SPECS:
- * An original mfsc pattern inspired by vintage 1940s-50s classic American sweatshirts and period athletic wear.* Tubular body (no side seams).* “Drop shoulder” pattern.* Fancy all-cotton 1×5 needle-out ribbing waistband, cuffs, neckband and gussets.* Double “V” neck inserts, dual layers of stretchy ribbed knit.* Vintage-style extra-long waistband and cuffs.* Underarm expansion gussets.* Rear panel smartphone or bidon pocket.* Four-needle flat lock stitching construction.* Original mfsc “PODIUM” rayon woven label.*
- SIZING/FIT
- The MF® MEDALIST Sweatshirt comes pre-rinsed (i.e. pre-shrunk), and is ready-to-wear.
- No need for any initial soaking process.
- All different color options fit the same.
- Depending on your own personal style, preference of silhouette, body type, and whether you’re going old-school vintage or contemporary streetwear, the size that will work for you is subjective.
- CL's Advice: I opted for a size SMALL in all color options, for a shorter “period” look, matching one’s natural waist rather than covering the back pockets of jeans.
- Just a personal preference for the vintage vibe.
- I am 5’7 / 145 lbs.
- CARE
- Low maintenance garment.
- STORY
- The Mister Freedom® MEDALIST is our take on the iconic American SWEATSHIRT.
- We’ve been working on this one for a while, as plenty of contemporary options already exist and we wanted to make sure that our version be classic yet special.
- First, if you get asked on Jeopardy and your friend Bob can’t get to the phone, sweatshirt material consists of a single knit fabric, with a flat texture jersey on the face (outside), and a French Terry reverse with loops mechanically shredded/brushed into a soft fleece pile (inside).
- It has been the fabric of choice for warm-up athletic gear for about a century.
- Classic vintage sweatshirts (~ pre-1970s) are usually cut from tubular fleeced jersey, meaning the sock-like cylinder body has no side seams.
- With roots in the 1920s, modern tubular fleece has been produced since the 1950s on elaborate single-jersey circular knitting machines.
- Meaning, the body of a size Small tubular sweatshirt is knitted on a different machine than the Medium.
- This doesn’t help with cost of production, but vintage clothing purists will appreciate the seamless tube body.
- To add to the challenge of milling this special fleece fabric, we also insisted that our waistband ribbing be tubular, without the joining side seam typical of modern fashion sweatshirts.
- We also were set on a special “5×1 needle-out” type of ribbing, a cool feature of certain rare and desirable vintage 1940s-50s specimen.
- With this tall order, we sent our friends at Toyo Enterprise on a double wild-goose chase, and, as always, they sourced-out not only the perfect tubular fleece, but managed to mill the special needle-out tubular ribbing.
- For the design and construction of our MEDALIST, we wanted to stay away from anything contemporary.
- So we scrutinized and dissected several vintage specimen collected over the years, studied classic proportions and cuts, found inspiration in period silhouettes from old photos and athletic goods 1930s-1960s catalogs, tested prototypes with traditional stitching options… and basically came up with a very old-school looking winner, the MF® MEDALIST!
- Pattern-wise, one of the key point for us was the “drop shoulder” look.
- Modern sweatshirts and even contemporary vintage replicas tend to prefer an updated non-slouching shoulder seam, for a “more tailored” look.
- The drop shoulder cut may be an acquired taste, like the leg twist on a pair of old Levi’s for instance, but we went for the “anti-fit” cut of authentic 1940s-50s vintage sweatshirts.
- Initially intended as a stretch gusset on the neck band so that the pull-over warm-up shirt (made of wool in the early days) would fit over, say, a football helmet, the “V” was a good substitute to a ½ zipper.
- Our MEDALIST 40s-style double Vs are of the “functioning” type, as they actually are double-layer stretchy ribbing inserts, and not just the decorative V-shaped flat lock stitching typical of later productions of sweatshirts.
- Many “V”s on contemporary sweats are also purely decorative.
- Another feature of our MEDALIST is the underarm expansion gusset, a detail and intricate construction challenge lifted from a rare 1950s vintage sweat from our archives.
- Like the double Vs, these arms gussets are also double-layer inserts of needle-out rib.
- As a touch of modern practicability, we mounted a back pocket to the MEDALIST rear panel, with an original flat-lock construction “sandwiched” in the waistband.
- This discreet storage will come handy when cycling, to carry a smart phone or small bidon without obstructing the front of the shirt.
- Just avoid using it for your phone or wallet while riding the metro in Paris…
- Pair it with blue jeans, khaki chinos, piques… for the gym, the beach or to lounge around at home, our MEDALIST is versatile, comfortable, functional, ethically-produced… and just ridiculously good looking!
DÉTAILS
Marque
Mister Freedom
Catégorie
Sweatshirts
Matière
Cotton
Origine
Japan
Couleur
Navy
Prix
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